Sunday, April 12, 2015

In Avengers: Age of Ultron, Earth's Mightiest Heroes assemble once again, along with a few new faces, to fight an evil artificial intelligence hell bent on eradicating humankind. To help promote the release of the Avengers sequel, the ArcLight Pasadena cinema had these original 'Thor' and 'Nick Fury' film costumes, plus Captain America's broken shield prop on display on April 10, 2015.

Avengers: Age of Ultron movie costume and prop exhibit

I believe this shattered Captain America shield prop was also on display last San Diego Comic-Con, but the interesting thing is that the super-soldier's shield is made of Vibranium and almost indestructible. Hopefully this will mean that we'll get to see the African nation of Wakanda and maybe a glimpse of the 'Black Panther' in this movie, as that is the main source of Vibranium in the Marvel Comics universe at least.

Avengers: Age of Ultron movie poster

Alexandra Byrne is the Oscar-winning Costume Designer on Avengers: Age of Ultron and she was also designer on the first Thor and Avengers movies, plus you can see her costumes in Guardians of the Galaxy (plus she is working on the forthcoming Marvel movie adaptation of Dr. Strange).

Original Thor costume worn by Chris Hemsworth

in Avengers: Age of Ultron

It was hard to get great shots with the lighting and reflective case, but hopefully these images show the detail of the God of Thunder's battlearmour.

If you like this heroic costume worn by Chris Hemsworth as Thor in the Avengers sequel, be sure check out more original Asgardian costumes from Thor: The Dark Worldworn by the likes of 'Loki', 'Lady Sif', 'Fandral', 'Volstagg', 'Odin', 'Frigga' and even 'Jane Foster'.

Original Nick Fury costume worn by Samuel L. Jackson

in Avengers: Age of Ultron

Super-spy Nick Fury's all-black costume isn't that interesting compared to the colourful outfits worn by the superheroes in the movie, but it's still cool to see in person and an easy look to replicate and very Shaft-esque. Plus it's nice to see Samuel L. Jackson rocking the eye-patch again after the events of Captain America: The Winter Solider and the fall of S.H.I.E.L.D. when HYDRA reared its many ugly heads.